THE IRON ORES. —- 889 
In Sandy township, of Stark county, no valuable beds of the ore 
have yet been discovered. The horizon is very clearly displayed at 
many points, and on several farms the Upper Freeport coal has been 
worked on a small scale. On the land of David Stull, for example, on 
the west side of the township, a large body of lean ore. overlying the 
Upper Freeport coal, was mined and calcined many years ago, but the 
ore was pronounced unfit for iron manufacture, and it still lies in the 
kilns. Several other attempts have been made to find the ore in this 
township, but, though several banks have pea opened, none of them 
has furnished ore of proper quality. | 
Better fortune has attended the development of this horizon in the 
adjacent township of Rose, in Carroll county. Three separate but 
closely contiguous hills have been found to hold blackband ore of fair 
quality. They are situated on the Rhinehart, Creighton, and New- 
house (formerly Gibler) farms, respectively, and are all embraced in 
section 24. The interval from the Middle Kittanning coal, which is 
mined at the foot of the hills in which the ore banks are found, is 130 
feet for the Rhinehart farm, and 147 feet for the Creighton farm. ‘The 
Rhinehart bank has been entirely worked out. A little ore is left in 
the other areas. At the Newhouse bank it is 34 feet thick Consider- 
able ore fhas been mined here, but it was pronounced too lean, and was 
consequently abandoned. Samples were taken from this rejected ore 
for partial analysis, the result of which is given below: 
ANALYSIS OF NEWHOUSE BLACKBAND. (Lord.) 
Sill Capreremmacntestcess Mave kc sacar ches Shu stat cade edscecaescaeueentewestie lostets 12.39 
WIS TEAITINS ThRO) tcrccc, daaabieddd besoCOOC OSC OGa ROS HOBE SEC sECH SHEBBH GR BCS RE CHecueaE BAAaCdE 25.65 
Phosphorus........... eRe aee RULE MM as, SLT ueeed LAE AMME SS CARESY 2, SLVR 0.157 
SUM Innere eset ckitces dem ctgaaccntaetcle eave seces be eese ate sce.ctaces acu oveevieeteddelvees 0.46 
The figures show an excellent ore, that ought to be handled with 
profit in any furnace that is using blackband. There is certainly 
nothing in the analysis to justify the discarding of the ore. It is quite 
up to the average of blackbands in metallic iron, and it is much lower 
in silica than most ores of this class. The only question is whether the 
samples fairly represent the bank. They were taken with this specific 
object from the piles that were mined, but never removed from the ore 
bank. 
